Slicing board



April e. E. SAN'DBECK SLICING BOARD Filed March 12 1926 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 45 AM /5 Q 7 6.2. Jandbev/r -1,623,498 April 1927' G. E. 'SANDBECK smcme BOARD Filed March 12. 1926 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Apr. 5, 1927.

UNITED stares GU T F .E- JSANZ B K or new YORK, N. Y.

BOARD.

Application filed March 12, 1926. ..Seria1 No. 94,294.

This invention relates to a board or device designed for use in slicing bread, other food products o-rmaterials.

It is aimed to provide a novel construction wherein particularly soft 'materials, like fresh bread, may be expeditiously cut into slices of uniform thickness.

Another object is to provide a novel means for regulating the width of the slices to be cut.

Still another object is to provide a novel construction of lneans whereby the cut slices ,may be readily dislodged for removal.

An operative embodiment is shown in accompanying drawings and additional objects and advantages will be pointed out or become apparent from the following description thereof.

In said drawings Figure 1 is a view of the invention in plan;

Figure 2 is a longitudinal vertical sectional View taken on the line 2-2 of Figure 1;

' Figure 3 is an end elevation;

Figure 4 is an elevation of the opposite end;

Figure 5 is a side elevation of the device in the position it assumes in front of the operator; and c Figure 6 is a perspective View of the de vice illustrating the knife and a loaf of bread in connection therewith as in operation.

Referring specifically to the drawings, the device comprises a base 10, a front end wall 11, a front side wall 12 anda knife gage strip 13, such parts usually being of wood although capable of n'ianufacture from any material desired and secured together in any desired manner.

The loaf of bread or other material to be cut rests on the base 10.a-nd by the hand of the operator-is forced toward the frontend wall 11 and pulled against the front side wall 12.. Such wall 12 has a vertical opening or slit 15 in which an ordinary bread knife or the like 16 may be moved and which knife engages the adjacent vertical edge of the gage strip 13 so that the knife will work in parallelism vertically to the front end wall 11 in cutting the bread'or other material into slices.

Against the wall 11, a relatively thin pallet or plate 17 may be placed, which will be held in position by the bread loaf, and which pallet after a slice is severed from the loaf,

disposed are suitably fastened at the top of the front wall 11 and pivotally mounted on the loops 18 are a suitable number of thick ness gage plates 19, the loops being accommodated in enlarged openings 20 of said plates. Said plates19 when not in use may occupy a posit-ion at the outside of. the wall 11, suspended from the loops 18. When the thickness of the slice to be cut is to be gaged, one or more of said plates may be swung up- Wardly, across the front wall 11 and then downwardly, on the loops 18 occupying a position in front of the plate 11, and thus decreasing the distance between the slit 15 and the wall 11, correspondingly limiting the thickness of the slice which may be out. In this connection, the plate 17 is removed before the plate or plates 19 are swung into operative position and it is replaced in front of the plate or plates 19 over the base 10, prior to slicing. i

It will be realized that in use, the device may to very good advantage be used in connection with hot or soft bread since it will insure cutting of the slices of uniform thickness, as contrasted with the uneven slices out p by a knife, especially when the bread is hot or fresh.

Various changes may be resorted to provided they fall within the spirit and scope of the invention.

I claim as my invention 1. A slicing appliance of the class described having a wall for abutment by the material to be cut, means to guide a knife in slicing the material, means operable rela-, tively to said wall to control the thickness of the slice to be cut, said means constituting a plate, and means 011 the wall hinging the plate whereby it may be moved from against one side of the wall to the other side of the wall.

2. A slicing appliance of the class de scribed having a wall constituting an abutment for the materialto be sliced, means to guide a knife in slicing the material, and a plate disposed against said Wall held against accidental displacement by the material, said plate being movable away from the Wall to facilitate removal of a slice.

3. A slicing appliance of the class de scribed comprising a wall against which the material to be sliced abuts, means to guide a knife relatively to said Wall in slicing the material, hinge loops disposed adjacent the top of said Wall and transversely thereof, and plates pivotally and bodily movably mounted on said loops whereby they may selectively occupy positions on either sideof said Wall.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

GUSTAF E. SANDBEGK. 

